Word: fakers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amendment supporter shouted "you are a moralizing faker," when an Executive committee member defended the present system. They started fighting and had to be separated forcibly...
...faker strips such pieces with lye or paint remover; he refinishes them with stain, oil or varnish, sands their corners, and then "distresses" them with chains and mallets-that is, he gives them a good pounding to lend the battered allure of great age. The suspicious customer should examine the drawers of wooden pieces. Fakes are often hinged together by eight to ten machine-made dovetails; the genuine article has three to five irregularly shaped, hand-carved dovetails...
...writing reflects a resentful bewilderment. He never tries to understand or to analyze. Instead, as he says, "I am angry." He argues, in effect, "I see nothing in abstract art because there's nothing to see. Any one who claims to see anything in it is either a faker or a dupe...
...that Senator Goldwater has called Johnson "the biggest faker in the U.S." How can Goldwater draw such a superlative evaluation without, for example, knowing...
...only authentic thing about it, said De Chirico, was the signature; he insisted that the rest of it had been overpainted on one of his neoclassic efforts by some art faker...